Ryan Ford (previously known as Unknown522) is a Canadian Fox player from Toronto who was considered the best Fox player in Canada and one of the best players in Canada, ranked 15th on SSBM Rank 2013 prior to his ban from the community due to his controversial behaviour. He was unbanned in March 2015, is currently ranked 2nd on the Southern Ontario Power Rankings, and 51st on SSBM Rank 2015.

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Ryan Ford's most infamous controversy was at Revival of Melee 5, where he publicly split the pot with Mew2King and refused to play his main, Fox, in grand finals. For more information, see the RoM5 page.

Due to his violent behaviour at tournaments and towards other players in general, he was banned from the Apex series of tournaments beginning with Apex 2013, and was banned from the Toronto Smash community for one year beginning in November 2013. He began attending tournaments again in March 2015.[2]